{"id":974952,"date":"2025-11-19T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974952"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:22:34","slug":"trai-tightens-rules-to-prevent-online-fraud-in-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/19\/trai-tightens-rules-to-prevent-online-fraud-in-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI tightens rules to prevent online fraud in SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt at curbing digital fraud and misleading SMS links, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked access providers to ensure that all business SMS templates include proper tagging for parts of a message. <\/p>\n<p>As per TRAI, the variable components such as names, links, phone numbers, download URLs or transaction details, are widely exploited by scammers. These components form body of a message.  TRAI said that fraudsters could misuse these untagged fields by adding fake and harmful links that appear to come from trusted brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt at curbing digital fraud and misleading SMS links, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked access providers to ensure that all business SMS templates include proper tagging for parts of a message. As per TRAI, the variable components such as names, links, phone numbers, download URLs or transaction details, are widely exploited by scammers. These components form body of a message. TRAI said that fraudsters could misuse these untagged fields by adding fake and harmful links that appear to come from trusted brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}